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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 904 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Go round the circle): Order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple. Primary: red, yellow, blue. Secondary: orange, green, purple. Tertiary: the six two-word colours. Neighbours on the wheel are called analogous colours; black, white, grey and brown are neutrals and are not on the wheel.

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  1. 1.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  14. 14.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) red
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red
  16. 16.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-purple
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  28. 28.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. primary colour
  3. 12
  4. green
  5. purple
  6. green
  7. red-purple
  8. analogous colours
  9. True
  10. False
  11. blue-purple
  12. yellow-orange
  13. yellow
  14. grey
  15. orange
  16. True
  17. orange
  18. red
  19. red
  20. True
  21. secondary colour
  22. orange
  23. purple
  24. blue-green
  25. green
  26. yellow-orange
  27. 6
  28. False
  29. True
  30. tertiary colour
  31. tertiary colour
  32. True
  33. secondary colour
  34. True
  35. blue
  36. primary colour
  37. blue
  38. False
  39. False
  40. False

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